“Don’t say anything you don’t want others hearing.” He pointed to the stone beneath us. When I caught Rhys looking at the necklace for the tenth time, I said, “What?” All around the mist drifted by, whipped by the wind, whose hollow moaning drowned out our crunching footsteps. Higher and higher we climbed, and I drank from the countless little streams that gurgled through the bumps and hollows in the moss-and-grass slopes. ![]() Rhys kept frowning at the amulet as we hiked the slope of the Prison, so steep that at times we had to crawl on our hands and knees. Rhys hadn’t been wrong about the firedrake comparison. But it is yours to use in the Prison.”īy the time my fingers brushed the cool metal and stone, she’d walked out the door. If you keep it, I will find you, and the results won’t be pleasant. But you may borrow it, while you do what needs to be done, and return it to me when you are finished. “Allow me to make one thing clear,” Amren said, bracing both hands on the carved wooden footboard. Wear it in, and they can never keep you.” ![]() A little gold amulet of pearl and cloudy blue stone. ![]() Rhys had said no one entered without his permission, but. “No wonder you’re so thin if you vomit up your guts every night.” She sniffed, her lip curling. I jolted back, slamming into the headboard, blinded by the morning light blazing in, fumbling for a weapon, anything to use. Amren was standing at the foot of my bed.
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